The motoring public will feel a 7 cents gasoline tax hike as the first step to pay for a $16.1 billion transportation package unveiled Monday by bipartisan legislative leaders, after Gov. Jay Inslee agreed to swallow a “poison pill.” The package includes an 11.9-cents a gallon gas tax increase, $8.8 billion for state and local […]
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President Obama’s job approval rating is back up to 50 percent, its highest since 2013, according to an ABC News/Washington Post national survey released on the eve of the State-of-the-Union speech. Forty-four percent in the poll disapprove of the job being done by the nation’s 44th president. The president, in using his executive powers, has […]
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The nearest deep-water port to North Dakota’s Bakken oil field is Vancouver, Washington, and as many as four tanker trains, each a mile and a half long, will arrive at the Columbia River each day if the Vancouver Energy Distribution Terminal is built. “This is an ideal area for a project like this,” said Jared […]
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Mayor Mike McGinn says it is not campaigning but, in his words, “communicating with the people,” but whatever you call it McGinn is out there in front of the TV cameras — day after day after day — delivering good-news announcements and what’s known in the political trade as “bite-sized” programs. It was “Weapons […]
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